Executive Summary
The Indian Film Company Limited is a newly incorporated, Guernsey registered company established as a registered closed ended fund to make investments in both Indian films and films primarily targeted at the Indian audience. In order to seek to ensure that investments made by the Company, and the returns generated on the realisation of investments, are optimised, the Company has established a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in Cyprus, and currently intends to establish a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cyprus subsidiary in India (collectively, the \Group\). The Company will operate as an externally managed India-focused motion picture company with outsourced production and distribution functions. The investment objective is to achieve total return for shareholders through investment in a diverse portfolio of Indian films and films primarily targeted at the Indian audience across varying genre, language and budgets. The Company will benefit from a special relationship with Studio 18, a division of Network 18. Network 18 is the holding company of Television 18 and Global Broadcast News, all of which are listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange. Studio 18 was launched in June 2006 as a full production, co-production, marketing and global distribution platform. The Company will have first right of refusal on all film projects originated by Studio 18 but the Company will also retain the flexibility to explore and invest in film projects generated by other production companies. Network 18 has undertaken to invest T?10 million in ordinary shares as part of the placing. The Group will typically seek to enter into arrangements relating to film projects where the Group retains full ownership of all intellectual property rights relating to each film project although ownership may be shared with co-producers where necessary. In certain situations, the Group may invest in a film project where it may not own any of the intellectual property rights, however, the broad objective of the Group is to build a film library of intellectual property rights in various formats, such as satellite, home video and mobile technology. Once fully invested, the Investment Manager envisages that the Group should hold investments in a diversified portfolio of approximately 30 to 40 Film Projects.
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